If ACA mandates are upheld, we won't get Medicare-for-All and better health care for a generation.

[Egalitarian Thug]

73. This is why Democrats lose. We've seen this played out time and again, in state after state,

decade after decade, and every time, this is the response.

This time it will work, this time we will win, this time they're on our side.

Of course it won't and they are not, but you know what this con job will do?

It will, for the first time in our history, place an extra-governmental, private industry in legal control of an entire sector of our national economy.

It legitimizes the republican claim that government can't do anything right or well.

It virtually ensures that the blood sucking middlemen will have the legal precedent and financial clout to block any future attempt to impose sanity in this essential part of everyday life.

And, as if that weren't enough, it will give the republican party full cover and legitimize their next come back with an even worse idea as this debacle unfolds.

The hard-core republican faithful are blind and gullible, we all know that and they demonstrate it every day, but the hard-core Democratic faithful are just the flip-side of that same coin that sits deep in the pocket of the owners this nation.

But, there is always hope, and I think right now our hope lies in OWS and what will grow out of that.